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Is a brain all you need to have a functional mind? Is the body just peripheral to cognition? Many researchers think so, but advocates of embodied cognition have different ideas.
(Quick note: “Altered Carbon” is racy & gory, but also very good. It doesn’t get particularly hung up on the “Is a copy of my mind REALLY MEEEE?!” question, touches on a lot of interesting problems with technological immortality, & actually has a lot of interesting test cases & scenarios for the concept of embodied cognition.)
-Links for the Curious-
The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) - pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7756/0f155993cf906f0d8077d940f06e40b43cf0.pdf
“A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain” by Samuel McNerny -
blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guide-to-embodied-cognition-why-you-are-not-your-brain
“Embodied Cognition,” the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
“Embodied cognition is not what you think it is” by Andrew D. Wilson* and Sabrina Golonka - frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00058/full
The Poverty of Embodied Cognition (Goldinger et al, 2016) - psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-poverty-of-embodied-cognition.html?m=1
“You Think with the World, Not Just Your Brain” by Sam Kriss, a summary of a related phenomenon called “extended cognition” - theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/extended-embodied-cognition/542808/?utm_source=yahoo
A Cognitive Study of Happiness Metaphors in Persian and English (Safarnejad et al, 2014) - sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814015456
Why You May Want to Stand Like a Superhero”, by Robin S. Rosenberg - psychologytoday.com/blog/the-superheroes/201107/why-you-may-want-stand-superhero
Is a brain all you need to have a functional mind? Is the body just peripheral to cognition? Many researchers think so, but advocates of embodied cognition have different ideas.
(Quick note: “Altered Carbon” is racy & gory, but also very good. It doesn’t get particularly hung up on the “Is a copy of my mind REALLY MEEEE?!” question, touches on a lot of interesting problems with technological immortality, & actually has a lot of interesting test cases & scenarios for the concept of embodied cognition.)
-Links for the Curious-
The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) - pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7756/0f155993cf906f0d8077d940f06e40b43cf0.pdf
“A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain” by Samuel McNerny -
blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guide-to-embodied-cognition-why-you-are-not-your-brain
“Embodied Cognition,” the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
“Embodied cognition is not what you think it is” by Andrew D. Wilson* and Sabrina Golonka - frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00058/full
The Poverty of Embodied Cognition (Goldinger et al, 2016) - psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-poverty-of-embodied-cognition.html?m=1
“You Think with the World, Not Just Your Brain” by Sam Kriss, a summary of a related phenomenon called “extended cognition” - theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/extended-embodied-cognition/542808/?utm_source=yahoo
A Cognitive Study of Happiness Metaphors in Persian and English (Safarnejad et al, 2014) - sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814015456
Why You May Want to Stand Like a Superhero”, by Robin S. Rosenberg - psychologytoday.com/blog/the-superheroes/201107/why-you-may-want-stand-superhero
